The Original "Jurassic Park" was released today 22 years ago on 6/11/93. It's amazing how the park is finally open. To bad the God himself John Williams isn't doing the music for this one cause he's working on "Star Wars". As long as they use the themes I'm cool:
The Original "Jurassic Park" was released today 22 years ago on 6/11/93. It's amazing how the park is finally open. To bad the God himself John Williams isn't doing the music for this one cause he's working on "Star Wars". As long as they use the themes I'm cool:
Just seen it. Famous last words: I was wrong. Movie was a bit unfocused, sometimes stupid (but not obnoxiously) but it hit a lot of notes right and the ending was awesome, incredible fukkery induced pay-off.
Let's get one thing out of the way quickly, this is the best Jurassic Park sequel. That's not that hard since The Lost World is garbage and Jurassic Park III is less garbage but also with less T-Rex, but it is what it is.
First off, it leans on nostalgia a bit but not as much as I expected. Most of the nostalgia came from the well-used classic theme during the early scenes of the kids exploring the park. It also works against the movie because whenever the movie isn't incorporating prime John Williams, the music is generic as fukk.
I liked how the movie opened and moved towards things, it's like three minutes max before these kids head into the park so there's little time wasted on pointless melodrama at that time. More about that later. I also liked how they incorporated Chris Pratt's character. The main characters of the movie are definitely the kids and Bryce Dallas Howard, the latter being their aunt who is too busy running the park to really hang out with or care about them. Yup, they replaced the neglecting father figure with a neglecting aunt. Pratt is basically a trainer for the Raptors (and former navy seal, best line of the movie btw: "I used to be navy, not Navajo") who simply is pulled into the fray because of his expertise, and they keep distance between him and the kids in a way that makes sense because he doesn't know them personally and he's busy trying to do his job and all. There's no forced "we're all best buddies now!" dynamic outside of the kids thinking he's cool because he runs with Raptors and knows his shyt.
Which brings me to one of the dumb bits of the movie, a large part of the plot is based on inGen's plans to give Dinosaurs military use. Yeah, that's right. Vincent D'Onofrio thinks that because Pratt can stick his hand out and stop Raptors from eating him, they can take orders and therefore can be used in modern warfare. There's a ridiculous amount of time spent throughout the movie trying to make this not sound like it would be the dumbest idea ever, and it utterly fails as they keep having D'Onofrio spout these ridiculous lines like "Can you imagine if we had these guys at Tora Bora?". No, Vincent D'Onofrio, I can't imagine what it would be like if Raptors were fighting for the US military at Tora Bora. Nobody ever really acknowledges how crazy an idea it is either, instead everybody's kinda like "I don't think we can control them" and "They're not your play pets", rather than going "What the fukk is this idiot madman talking about saying drones are obsolete and Velociraptors are the future of military warfare?"
So yeah, there's a bunch of really stupid stuff in here but it's spread out wide enough so it never feels too in your face present to really start nagging you. However, there's one thing that really fukking nags me, and that's the 'arc' of the kids. They're shown with their parents in the beginning and all seem well, the parents kinda clown the old kid for his over protective girlfriend who he seems to care little about and just overall they seem like a nice family. There's a hint of some sadness when they say goodbye as they step on the plane and the dad says something like "this was our last family breakfast". It was a kinda weird line and I figured it had to do with the old kid going to college or something, or a "they're growing up so fast" kinda thing.
Anyway, the dynamic between the kids is that the young one is a smart kid who loves dinosaurs, and the old kid doesn't care about him much or the park and is mostly checking out and flirting with girls. I actually thought it was a bit cool they had a kid in there who acted like an a$$hole kid who basically would cheat on his girlfriend, nice anti-trope from the usual perfect romantic lovey-dovey guy. Anyway, it all falls apart horribly when 45 minutes into the movie (I clocked it), out of absolutely nowhere, they bring in a divorce angle. The young kid randomly starts crying about their parents divorcing (apparently that's what the "family breakfast" line was about, and outside of that there was no hint or clue of it whatsoever), the old kid is kinda like "Man up, breh", the young kid is like "No, I'm still sad" and the old kid embraces him. The scene ends and that's literally the last time it's brought up. The whole divorce angle or the kid's fear is completely dropped, never spoken of, the only difference is that now, the old kid wants to show his brother a good time in the park. THAT'S IT! It's every bit as misplaced as it's awful as it's downright insulting and I wish I could stomp the writers in all four of their faces for that shyt being in there.
And there's a thread there because a lot of subplots and characters simply have no ending or are kinda forgotten about. Spoiler alert: the black guy lives, at least I think he lives because the last time the movie showed him he was hiding in a hollow tree trunk with the threatening Raptor being lured away, so I guess we can only assume he lived, although he may be wandering dinosaur infested woods for the rest of his life. I dunno, the movie doesn't tell us anything.
So yeah, it's unfocused and got some weird shyt going on at times, but I'd say most of the stuff with the kids does work (side note: that scene where they fix one of the original Jurassic Park jeeps isn't one of them) and all of the Pratt/Dallas Howard stuff definitely works. I also liked a clever off-hand remark made about the hybrid dinosaur not being that weird since they had to splice DNA to fill the gaps for the other dinosaurs as well, and that's basically the movie's excuse for the dinosaurs not looking like what scientific progress has shown them to look like (such as the fact the T-Rex is supposed to have feathers). All the dinosaur action was great, and as I've said, the ending (call it the grand finale) is a great pay-off. It's tons of fukkery (a slow-motion shot of a Raptor running into the fray to help like a goddamn superhero for one) but it's the best kind of fukkery, dinosaur fukkery. Kids and anyone who still possess the mind of a kid are gonna fukking mark out during that shyt, and it's not even the best part because to top it all off...
Hydrosaur, baby!
So yeah, the stuff that pushes the plot is really kinda stupid but all the stuff around it makes for a good, entertaining movie, so I liked it a lot.
Much better than I anticipated
if it weren't for some fukkboy c*ntstain chatting to his thot it would've been even better.
what the fukk were they doing putting cuttlefish, treefrog and raptor dna into the dna of a fukking t rex??? plot device was kinda meh, but at least they're probably going to have a sequel, considering the shyt they shipped away. that giant sea dinosaur
Much better than I anticipated
if it weren't for some fukkboy c*ntstain chatting to his thot it would've been even better.
what the fukk were they doing putting cuttlefish, treefrog and raptor dna into the dna of a fukking t rex??? plot device was kinda meh, but at least they're probably going to have a sequel, considering the shyt they shipped away. that giant sea dinosaur
The Asian doc was working with D'Onofrio with the purpose of breeding dinosaurs specialized for military use. Besides that being the dumbest thing ever, it did give a valid explanation to why they spliced the Build-a-saurus Rex' DNA like that. I thought it was a weak plot device that they held off revealing it had Raptor DNA in it for most of the movie like that was some big "oohoo" reveal or something.
The Asian doc was working with D'Onofrio with the purpose of breeding dinosaurs specialized for military use. Besides that being the dumbest thing ever, it did give a valid explanation to why they spliced the Build-a-saurus Rex' DNA like that. I thought it was a weak plot device that they held off revealing it had Raptor DNA in it for most of the movie like that was some big "oohoo" reveal or something.
yeah the raptor dna reveal was like ah ok, instead of a moment. it briefly turned the pet raptors against the people. slightly lame. the cgi was great though
it'll be interesting to see militarized dinosaurs in the next film.
Aight, let me expand on this (with some minor spoilers):
Let's get one thing out of the way quickly, this is the best Jurassic Park sequel. That's not that hard since The Lost World is garbage and Jurassic Park III is less garbage but also with less T-Rex, but it is what it is.
First off, it leans on nostalgia a bit but not as much as I expected. Most of the nostalgia came from the well-used classic theme during the early scenes of the kids exploring the park. It also works against the movie because whenever the movie isn't incorporating prime John Williams, the music is generic as fukk.
I liked how the movie opened and moved towards things, it's like three minutes max before these kids head into the park so there's little time wasted on pointless melodrama at that time. More about that later. I also liked how they incorporated Chris Pratt's character. The main characters of the movie are definitely the kids and Bryce Dallas Howard, the latter being their aunt who is too busy running the park to really hang out with or care about them. Yup, they replaced the neglecting father figure with a neglecting aunt. Pratt is basically a trainer for the Raptors (and former navy seal, best line of the movie btw: "I used to be navy, not Navajo") who simply is pulled into the fray because of his expertise, and they keep distance between him and the kids in a way that makes sense because he doesn't know them personally and he's busy trying to do his job and all. There's no forced "we're all best buddies now!" dynamic outside of the kids thinking he's cool because he runs with Raptors and knows his shyt.
Which brings me to one of the dumb bits of the movie, a large part of the plot is based on inGen's plans to give Dinosaurs military use. Yeah, that's right. Vincent D'Onofrio thinks that because Pratt can stick his hand out and stop Raptors from eating him, they can take orders and therefore can be used in modern warfare. There's a ridiculous amount of time spent throughout the movie trying to make this not sound like it would be the dumbest idea ever, and it utterly fails as they keep having D'Onofrio spout these ridiculous lines like "Can you imagine if we had these guys at Tora Bora?". No, Vincent D'Onofrio, I can't imagine what it would be like if Raptors were fighting for the US military at Tora Bora. Nobody ever really acknowledges how crazy an idea it is either, instead everybody's kinda like "I don't think we can control them" and "They're not your play pets", rather than going "What the fukk is this idiot madman talking about saying drones are obsolete and Velociraptors are the future of military warfare?"
So yeah, there's a bunch of really stupid stuff in here but it's spread out wide enough so it never feels too in your face present to really start nagging you. However, there's one thing that really fukking nags me, and that's the 'arc' of the kids. They're shown with their parents in the beginning and all seem well, the parents kinda clown the old kid for his over protective girlfriend who he seems to care little about and just overall they seem like a nice family. There's a hint of some sadness when they say goodbye as they step on the plane and the dad says something like "this was our last family breakfast". It was a kinda weird line and I figured it had to do with the old kid going to college or something, or a "they're growing up so fast" kinda thing.
Anyway, the dynamic between the kids is that the young one is a smart kid who loves dinosaurs, and the old kid doesn't care about him much or the park and is mostly checking out and flirting with girls. I actually thought it was a bit cool they had a kid in there who acted like an a$$hole kid who basically would cheat on his girlfriend, nice anti-trope from the usual perfect romantic lovey-dovey guy. Anyway, it all falls apart horribly when 45 minutes into the movie (I clocked it), out of absolutely nowhere, they bring in a divorce angle. The young kid randomly starts crying about their parents divorcing (apparently that's what the "family breakfast" line was about, and outside of that there was no hint or clue of it whatsoever), the old kid is kinda like "Man up, breh", the young kid is like "No, I'm still sad" and the old kid embraces him. The scene ends and that's literally the last time it's brought up. The whole divorce angle or the kid's fear is completely dropped, never spoken of, the only difference is that now, the old kid wants to show his brother a good time in the park. THAT'S IT! It's every bit as misplaced as it's awful as it's downright insulting and I wish I could stomp the writers in all four of their faces for that shyt being in there.
And there's a thread there because a lot of subplots and characters simply have no ending or are kinda forgotten about. Spoiler alert: the black guy lives, at least I think he lives because the last time the movie showed him he was hiding in a hollow tree trunk with the threatening Raptor being lured away, so I guess we can only assume he lived, although he may be wandering dinosaur infested woods for the rest of his life. I dunno, the movie doesn't tell us anything.
So yeah, it's unfocused and got some weird shyt going on at times, but I'd say most of the stuff with the kids does work (side note: that scene where they fix one of the original Jurassic Park jeeps isn't one of them) and all of the Pratt/Dallas Howard stuff definitely works. I also liked a clever off-hand remark made about the hybrid dinosaur not being that weird since they had to splice DNA to fill the gaps for the other dinosaurs as well, and that's basically the movie's excuse for the dinosaurs not looking like what scientific progress has shown them to look like (such as the fact the T-Rex is supposed to have feathers). All the dinosaur action was great, and as I've said, the ending (call it the grand finale) is a great pay-off. It's tons of fukkery (a slow-motion shot of a Raptor running into the fray to help like a goddamn superhero for one) but it's the best kind of fukkery, dinosaur fukkery. Kids and anyone who still possess the mind of a kid are gonna fukking mark out during that shyt, and it's not even the best part because to top it all off...
Hydrosaur, baby!
So yeah, the stuff that pushes the plot is really kinda stupid but all the stuff around it makes for a good, entertaining movie, so I liked it a lot.
I just seen it any I loved it . I don't see the complaints in the negative reviews outside of the nostalgia. I see people saying how classic every character was from the first Jurassic park and I'm like no , goldbums character sure ,Sam oneil
Eh maybe , Laura dern ? No no no . This is a good movie .its hard to capture the magic and wonder of the first JP again and I'll admit it's because I'm grown now . This movie does a good job of revisiting those feelings and address the real issue that nowadays JW would be like Disney or six flags to kids .
The divorce stuff was hinted at in the phone call too breh she was in a lawyers office it looked like and all the crying and stuff and idk how crazy the idea of using intelligent evolved dinosaurs to fight IF they could be trained like dogs . These dinosaurs are genetically modified
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I remember getting out of school that day and my parents surprising me that night.
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moment. it briefly turned the pet raptors against the people. slightly lame. the cgi was great though 
and idk how crazy the idea of using intelligent evolved dinosaurs to fight IF they could be trained like dogs . These dinosaurs are genetically modified 
